GERMANY'S AMBITION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14450, 9 November 1917, Page 3

GERMANY'S AMBITION.

"DEDUCTIONS FROM THE GREAT „. ■ „ ,j. .: war." :?'• AGREEMENTS "WILL ONLY BE TREATIES." (Re'-ter'e Telegram.) LONDON, November 7. A remarkable book, entitled ''Deductions From the Great War," by tho.. Prussian • general. Baron von 'Froytag ; Loringhoven, a former quarter-master.- .:. general, and now Deputy Chief of the j General Staff, has reached England. j The, writer is considered a moderate ; among Prussian militarists; hence liis h views? are mere illuminating. ;- Baron voir f^rey tag Loringhoven shows that the most intelligent German military leaders utterly reject ideas of pack ficism . or internationalism. They regard the: present war.a s showing that G'erihahy must have a bigger navy and r bigger army and far greater quantities <*f munitions-*: for ithe next war. Jle prq- T ceeds':— "It may be asked : 'What will |^c tte npe of all*ithis?f ,Wi|l not the £eiieral exhaustion of Furop'e after ; the. worl^onfiagßation put the 'danger of a new* war m "the background and pave $6 -\yjsiy to disarmamenti.andMpermanent peace?' The answer is' that nobody jcah guarantee a /long iperipd of peace, ' an/l a. lasting peace ..carf..b'e rt gnaranteed . only; >by strong armament^.' Moreover, world power Is inconceivable without striving*for the expression of power m the world and .for sea power. But that must uu vblve the constant existence of a large number of points of friction ; hence the necessity for adequate armaments ; on, land and. sea." V 'Baron von Freytag expects that as „a result of this war agreements to banish' War" wjlb.be concluded between the. States, * l but says ' all such agreements after all will only* be treaties. He hopes the- present war will rid Germany once, and for all of confused cosmopolitan sentimentalism.